{"id":119667,"date":"2021-02-16T21:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T05:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/counter-intuitive-quantum-mechanics-state-of-vibration-that-exists-simultaneously-at-two-different-times"},"modified":"2021-02-16T21:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T05:22:21","slug":"counter-intuitive-quantum-mechanics-state-of-vibration-that-exists-simultaneously-at-two-different-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/counter-intuitive-quantum-mechanics-state-of-vibration-that-exists-simultaneously-at-two-different-times","title":{"rendered":"Counter-Intuitive Quantum Mechanics: State of Vibration That Exists Simultaneously at Two Different Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/counter-intuitive-quantum-mechanics-state-of-vibration-that-exists-simultaneously-at-two-different-times.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>When Light and Atoms Share a Common Vibe<\/b><\/p>\n<p>An especially counter-intuitive feature of quantum mechanics is that a single event can exist in a state of superposition \u2014 happening both here and there, or both today and tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Such superpositions are hard to create, as they are destroyed if any kind of information about the place and time of the event leaks into the surrounding \u2014 and even if nobody actually records this information. But when superpositions do occur, they lead to observations that are very different from that of classical physics, questioning down to our very understanding of space and time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Light and Atoms Share a Common Vibe An especially counter-intuitive feature of quantum mechanics is that a single event can exist in a state of superposition \u2014 happening both here and there, or both today and tomorrow. Such superpositions are hard to create, as they are destroyed if any kind of information about the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}